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Tom, some people like to relax by working in the garden or call themselves a do-it-yourself type and like fixing projects around the house. We all know you like to cook. Asking my previous unanswered question a different way, what type of productive things do you enjoy? Which ones are you like "no way" and find it best you have someone else take care of?

Originally Posted by dj12inches

What makes me qualified? I've watched EVERY fucking episode of American Idol, and every single episode of The Voice...Forget that I won departmental music awards when I was in the 8th grade choir.

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I'm like Homer Simpson when it comes to home handyman work. I suck at it in a big, huge, awful way. Since I live in Arizona, 'gardening' is a little different here, but I pretty much suck at it too. Car care, home repair, lawn care, all that typical American man stuff, it doesn't interest me, so I suck at it. Or I suck at it, so it doesn't interest me. So yeah, I pay to have others do it for me.

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Originally Posted by TomAz

Your kids should always feel safe at home. I don't mean buy guns in case of burglers. I mean, they should feel in their hearts that home is a safe place for them emotionally. When you get mad at them (and you have, and you will, of course) resolve it. Don't let it fester. Resolve it in a way that they feel heard. That they feel understood, that you've listened to them and get their view, even if you disagree with it. (that's not the same as caving to everything -- quite different). They should know that if they fuck up, there will be consequences, but those consequences do not include losing their parents' love.

Also, lead by example. Live your life in a way that you would want them to emulate. If you want them to make good judgments, make good judgments yourself that they can see.

I love this, Tom. Like, a lot. What was the hardest thing about parenting for you? (Or still is?)

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Originally Posted by TomAz

I'm like Homer Simpson .... Car care ... I suck at it.

Irony: last night a few hours after I'd posted this (and after I'd already gone to bed) I got a call from my daughter. She had a flat tire. I had to go change it. Fortunately, that is a thing I can actually do myself.

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It has been said (though I have no idea why) that I may be a little impatient when helping them with their homework, and in particular math homework. so there's one: patience.

I hate school recitals and that stuff. Choir, band, etc etc. I go (& still do - younger daugher plays trombone in the HS band) but if it's one of those poorly organized, late starting, pointlessly dragging on forever things, I might get a little cranky.

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Originally Posted by hydr1

Isn't that a neil young lyric.....rust never sleeps

"Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" is a rock song by Neil Young. Combined with its acoustic counterpart "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)", it bookends Young's successful 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps. Inspired by proto-new wave group Devo, the rise of punk and what Young viewed as his own growing irrelevance, the song today crosses generations, inspiring admirers from punk to grunge and significantly revitalizing Young's then-faltering career. The song is about the alternatives of continuing to produce similar music ("to rust" or — in "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" — "to fade away") or to burn out, as John Lydon of the Sex Pistols might be considered to have done by abandoning his Johnny Rotten persona.

A part of a lyric from the song, "it's better to burn out than to fade away," became infamous in modern rock after being quoted in Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's suicide note. Young later said that he was so shaken that he dedicated his 1994 album Sleeps with Angels to Cobain. Because of Cobain's suicide, in live concerts he now emphasizes the line "once you're gone you can't come back".

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The phrase “bucket list” has become very popular lately. What would be the antithesis of your bucket list? Of course remember they might be quoted on the board later. Cr***

"Antithesis". You're asking me to provide a list of things I don't want to do before I die? I don't see how that question even makes sense. The list of things I don't want to do is infinite. I don't want to break my leg. I don't want to break my arm. I don't want to catch a cold. I don't want to go to a Coldplay concert. I don't want to be kicked in the genitals. I don't want to read a bad book or watch a bad movie. See? I'm wondering if you even know what 'antithesis' means.

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Originally Posted by koryp

Tom, favorite movie adapted from a novel?

Well, The Godfather came from a novel, and it may be my favorite movie ever.

But I'm going to narrow your question down to: my favorite movie adapted from a novel where I actually read the book first before the movie was produced. High Fidelity actually falls into that category, and I like that movie a lot, for what it is. I also really liked the TV miniseries made from Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, I thought they did about as good a job as could be done with that. But I'm going to go with No Country for Old Men, because that's a rare case where the movie is even better than the book (and the book was pretty good).